[Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox archive

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Hi,

Is there a reason why the rhythmbox central archive
<http://web.rhythmbox.org/arch/2004> is so outdated? Last patch is from 
January 2005

I personally like to use jhbuild to try out bleeding edge software and 
jhbuild is currently using that outdated archive.

I know that there are multiple archives of people which contain more 
recent patches. E.g. I read overhere [1] that it was better to use
Archive: olemke core-dump info--2005
Branch:  rhythmbox--merge--0.9
http://arch.core-dump.info/archive

But how do I know as a newbie which archive I should use? The above 
archive for instance is not listed on the website.

I might be missing something because I'm not so familiar with arch 
development, but I guess it will difficult to do a release now. Because 
you have all this archives with different features and patches, which 
have not been approved by the maintainer of rhythmbox.

It seems to me it would be better to commit changes faster to the main 
archive. These changes would get more testing and you don't need to 
postpone all the decisions until just before a release.

Cheers,

Jaap






[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2005-May/msg00148.html